Why does Fender Japan get all the good stuff?

[SIFJiggy]

Just go ahead to EvilBay and look at all the cool models/paint schemes and colors.

So many more matching head stocks. One model had a silver flake finish... All the models with inlays. Most of these models are available at just below American Standard price points. (Shipping is also a cool hundy)

A hollow body jazz bass!?!? Yup- they've got em.

And my favorite- the "standard PJ" - a jazz with split coil in the neck. -For 800 bucks US

What's up, Fender USA got no style? Would be great if they sent some of the models (or at least creativity) here to the US.


/rant

 

[Gord_oh]

i noticed this too.
seems like fender japan gets more creativity when it comes to making unique instruments.

 

[M0ses]

If I had to venture a guess, I would guess that the market there is much more receptive to that sort of thing. As much as we complain on TB, sunburst and CAR P basses are what people buy in the states.

 

[SIFJiggy]

If I had to venture a guess, I would guess that the market there is much more receptive to that sort of thing. As much as we complain on TB, sunburst and CAR P basses are what people buy in the states.

Got no choice! I bought a hand stained FSR- and I am a fender guy but I abhor their color/option choices.

 

[ggvicviper]

I also saw Fender Japan makes a 62 reissue P bass - but as an unlined fretless model.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-price-F...l-/151189060301?pt=Guitar&hash=item233391facd

 

[neo 7]

Yeah, what's up with that? I want some medium scale Jazzes and black Mustangs.

 

[JimiLL]

If I had to venture a guess, I would guess that the market there is much more receptive to that sort of thing. As much as we complain on TB, sunburst and CAR P basses are what people buy in the states.

I agree. The Japanese seem to be more progressive than status quo, and are probably more recEptive than the ordinary Joe the plumber to things like a sparkle paint job

 

[M0ses]

Got no choice! I bought a hand stained FSR- and I am a fender guy but I abhor their color/option choices.

Unfortunately, it's not up to individual taste. Trust me, I sympathize.

 

[SIFJiggy]

Even this years big 60th anniversary strat thing is boring as all heckfire.


Woo - some gold pick guards. Way to get crazy, FMIC.

 

[gleneg61]

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Not to start a poo slanging match, well maybe,...anyway go see what your uncle Yoshi can bring ya back from his trip to the Far East!!

Hopefully this might kick start Fender USA's paternal instincts for its US offspring....but probably not.

 

[Pocket4]

I also saw Fender Japan makes a 62 reissue P bass - but as an unlined fretless model

That fretless P has been on my wish list for a very long time. There's a quality look to those basses, especially in burst finishes, I don't think we see elsewhere for the $

 

[Mosfed]

I have to agree with you. I love their double bound jazz and p-basses, love the jazz bass thinline idea, etc. If they made that jazz bass thinline with the binding in a non-short scale I would already have one...

It seems like they have more liberty than the US - and from my experience - quality from Fender Japan absolutely kills it.

 

[Lowbrow]

Once bought a brand-new MI J 62 PBase, see-through blonde white! Beautiful I sold it like a dope. The quality was amazing!

 

[Jaco D]

I've also wondered about that. Even just comparing their respective domestic markets, it would seem as if Japan has a smaller domestic market for these things than the US yet they have more choices. Makes you wonder how they do it out there - smaller market, more choices, but can at least break-even (they should be profitable to say the least otherwise they would have stopped this years ago).

 

[Corvette19]

After playing my friends Japanese Mustangs and Jag-stangs, I always wanted a Fender Japan bass!! They're so cool!

 

[Bulldawg82]

Japanese Fenders are the only ones I will buy. I love me some Jaguar Deluxe! Wish they would make a 5 string Jag Delux.

 

[mmbongo]

In the USA, if it's not a Tobacco Sunburst P bass it does not sell.

 

[Bongolation]

Why does Fender Japan get all the good stuff?

Easy: They're not part of nor run by FMIC.

 

[bubinga5]

Do they not have people who specialise in importing Japan Fender in the US.? they do in the UK

 

[peledog]

IMO, Fender US had to get its act together in the 80s and early 90s because Fender Japan was building with a passion, and coming up with better product ideas.

Seems like this is going to be round 2.